Gangnam Style: The Social Media Impact of a Viral Video

Nic Robertson May 23, 2013 4 Comments

How to Win When Everyone Else is Failing on Facebook

OK guys, so I’ve got some good news and some bad news for you. And since I want to leave you with a message of hope I’ll give you the bad new first:

Building your Facebook fan page is hard and it’s expensive.

Over the past 12 months, levels of user-page interaction have plummeted right through the floor. Not only are users generally less interested in what brands have to say (yes, ‘brands’ also includes you, dear musicians), they are less likely to see the posts and ads being published by these Pages.

Nic Robertson May 1, 2013 8 Comments

20 Tips for Improving your Facebook Artist Page

Good old Facebook. It seems like everyone knows how to use it these days; from those mischievous 10 year olds brazenly lying about their age in order to sign up, to the new breed of highly intelligent super-pets who’ve managed to set up their very own profiles, complete with a neatly cropped selfie, and then ever-so-casually added all of their owners’ friends.

What a truly incredible age to be living in!

But in all seriousness, there are literally bus-loads of musicians all over the world that just aren’t making the most of the supremely powerful marketing tool that is Facebook.

Unlike the golden days of yesteryear, simply being on a Social platform is no longer enough. Nowadays you need a clear understanding of WHO your audience is, WHAT your objectives are, and HOW you will achieve them before you start getting trigger happy and slapping down figurative 10-dollar bills on the spontaneous promoting of posts.

What will now follow this little rant is a collection of 20 great tips (in no particular order) to help you slide over into the fast lane and start kicking Facebook’s ass with your online promotion strategy.

All set? Then here we go…

Filed Under: Blog, Branding, Content, Engagement, Strategy, Tools Tagged: Content, Facebook, Strategy, Tips, Tricks

Daniel Posavac January 16, 2013 7 Comments

Don’t write Myspace off just yet!

Are we about to witness one of the great comebacks of the Social Media age?

I have had a love/hate relationship with MySpace ever since I was introduced to the world’s first global Social network in late 2005. As a young hustling musician, MySpace was the perfect place to promote my band’s music (while also meeting girls at the same time).

Now I’m not going to write about the history of MySpace because Wiki and millions of others have already done great job. But it bears mention that the origins of what is now Jaden Social started on MySpace in early 2006, while the four of us were discovering the intricacies of online marketing and building a fanbase on MySpace.

Filed Under: Blog, Branding, Content, News Tagged: Music Marketing, MySpace, Social Media, Social Network, Tools

Nic Robertson December 18, 2012 5 Comments

Gangnam Style: The Social Media Impact of a Viral Video

Safe to say there have been more than a handful of Gangnam Style case studies bouncing around over the past few months. Case studies looking at things like HOW and WHY the video went viral, WHO was behind this freakishly cult phenomena, and WHAT the contributing factors were in driving nearly a billion views.

This is not one of those.

As a Digital music marketing agency, we are fascinated by the nuances of different Social Media platforms and the relationships they share with each other. In creating this Gangnam Style infographic, our aim was to understand the impact that a viral YouTube video has on other Social Media channels. In other words, what exactly is the exchange rate of a YouTube view when traded in on the ‘Social Media stock market’.

Without further ado, allow me to present…